Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 975. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SABINA, wife of Hadrian. Augusta, 128-136/7 AD. AR Denarius (2.89 gm). Uncertain eastern mint. Struck 128-132 AD. SABINA AVGVSTA, diademed and draped bust left, hair bound in queue down back / COS III, seven-pointed star within crescent. RIC II - (Hadrian); Strack B14 (hybrid); BMCRE pg. 361, hybrid b (Hadrian); RSC 35a. Good VF. Extremely rare; the second known (the other is in Vienna). ($750)

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 60 (22 May 2002), lot 1694.

The reverse is from an issue of Hadrian (RIC II 355), struck circa 124-132 AD, partly contemporaneous with this issue.